Nobler Quotes

161 Nobler quotes by 131 unique authors

Give me by all means the shorter and nobler life, instead of one that is longer but of less account! — Epictetus
A poet is a painter in his way, he draws to the life, but in another kind; we draw the nobler part, the soul and… — Aphra Behn
Faith is about what you do. It's about aspiring to be better and nobler and kinder than you are. It's about making sacrifices for the… — Jim Butcher
But there were some things I believed in. Some things I had faith in. And faith isn't about perfect attendance to services, or how much… — Jim Butcher
To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune,… — William Shakespeare
The various forms of education or ‘normalization’ imposed upon an individual consist in making him or her change points of subjectification, always moving towards a… — Gilles Deleuze
Love is fed by the imagination, by which we become wiser than we know, better than we feel, nobler than we are: by which we… — Oscar Wilde
These books have not made George nobler or better or more truly wise. It is just that he likes listening to their voices, the one… — Christopher Isherwood
The egocentric is always frustrated, simply because the condition of self-perfection is self-surrender. There must be a willingness to die to the lower part of… — Fulton J. Sheen
Man is only a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed. There is no need for the whole universe to take… — Blaise Pascal
It takes years and maturity to make the discovery that the power of faith is nobler than the power of doubt; and that there is… — Harriet Beecher Stowe
One will abide, and will confess that another is nobler than he, that another is richer, more handsome, and even that he is more learned,… — Juana InÃ©s de la Cruz
Men are not dogs. We merely think we are and, on occasion, act as if we are. But, by believing in our nobler nature, women… — Neil Strauss
Nor is there wanting in the press Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in it nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth. The tale of… — Robert Frost
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And… — William Shakespeare
It is in our faults and failings, not in our virtues, that we touch one another and find sympathy. We differ widely enough in our… — Jerome K. Jerome
They who stand with breaking hearts around this little grave, need have no fear. The larger and the nobler faith in all that is, and… — Robert Green Ingersoll
It is nobler to declare oneself wrong than to insist on being right --especially when one is right. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Man has no nobler function than to defend the truth. — Ruth McKenney
Trials, temptations, disappointments -- all these are helps instead of hindrances, if one uses them rightly. They not only test the fibre of a character,… — James Buckham Kennedy
Without free speech no search for truth is possible; without free speech progress is checked and the nations no longer march forward toward the nobler… — Charles Bradlaugh
All daring and courage, all iron endurance of misfortune-make for a finer, nobler type of manhood. — Theodore Roosevelt
We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's… — Robert Baden-Powell
Conceit, arrogance, and egotism are the essentials of patriotism. ... Patriotism assumes that our globe is divided into little spots, each one surrounded by an… — Emma Goldman
No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself, dwells in the breast of man. It is to this hour, and at… — Thomas Carlyle

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